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François Diederich

François Diederich

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Chemistry
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
129
Citations
86483
World Ranking
335
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

François Diederich was affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research spanned multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

Their work centered on topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes, Crystallography and Molecular Interactions, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Electron Spin Resonance Studies, and Magnetism in Coordination Complexes.

Diederich published research in several notable venues, frequently appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database with 25 publications. Other venues that featured their work include Chemistry - A European Journal, ECS Meeting Abstracts, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Diederich include:

  • Molecular Recognition and Cocrystallization of Methylated and Halogenated Fragments of Danicalipin A by Enantiopure Alleno-Acetylenic Cage Receptors, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Unraveling a Ligand-Induced Twist of a Homodimeric Enzyme by Pulsed Electron-Electron Double Resonance, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Stimuli-Responsive Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands: Toward Visible-Light-Activated Molecular Grippers, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Fragment Screening Hit Draws Attention to a Novel Transient Pocket Adjacent to the Recognition Site of the tRNA-Modifying Enzyme TGT, 2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • 19F-NMR Unveils the Ligand-Induced Conformation of a Catalytically Inactive Twisted Homodimer of tRNA-Guanine Transglycosylase, 2022, ACS Chemical Biology

Diederich collaborated frequently with several researchers including Nils Trapp, Cornelius Gropp, Tamara Husch, Erick M. Carreira, and Stefan Fischer.

Best Publications

  • Fluorine in Pharmaceuticals: Looking Beyond Intuition.

    Klaus Müller;Christoph Faeh;Christoph Faeh;François Diederich;François Diederich

  • Interactions with Aromatic Rings in Chemical and Biological Recognition

    Emmanuel A. Meyer;Ronald K. Castellano;François Diederich

  • Acetylenic Coupling: A Powerful Tool in Molecular Construction.

    Peter Siemsen;Robert C. Livingston;François Diederich

  • Aromatic rings in chemical and biological recognition: energetics and structures.

    Laura M. Salonen;Manuel Ellermann;François Diederich

  • Linear Monodisperse π‐Conjugated Oligomers: Model Compounds for Polymers and More

    Rainer E. Martin;François Diederich

  • All-optical high-speed signal processing with silicon–organic hybrid slot waveguides

    C. Koos;C. Koos;P. Vorreau;T. Vallaitis;P. Dumon

  • Supramolecular fullerene chemistry

    François Diederich;Marcos Gómez-López

  • Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: Diederich/Metal

    François Diederich;Peter J. Stang

  • Modern acetylene chemistry

    Peter J. Stang;François Diederich

  • Covalent Fullerene Chemistry

    François Diederich;Carlo Thilgen

  • Structural aspects of fullerene chemistry--a journey through fullerene chirality.

    Carlo Thilgen;François Diederich

  • Orthogonal multipolar interactions in structural chemistry and biology.

    Ralph Paulini;Klaus Müller;François Diederich

  • Acetylene chemistry : chemistry, biology and material science

    François Diederich;Peter J. Stang;Rik R. Tykwinski

  • Wechselwirkungen mit aromatischen Ringen in chemischen und biologischen Erkennungsprozessen

    Emmanuel A. Meyer;Ronald K. Castellano;François Diederich

  • Molecular Recognition in Chemical and Biological Systems

    Elke Persch;Oliver Dumele;François Diederich

  • Synthetic approaches toward molecular and polymeric carbon allotropes

    François Diederich;Yves Rubin

  • Carbon scaffolding: building acetylenic all-carbon and carbon-rich compounds

    François Diederich

  • Predicting and tuning physicochemical properties in lead optimization: amine basicities.

    Martin Morgenthaler;Eliane Schweizer;Anja Hoffmann‐Röder;Fausta Benini

  • Acetylene-Derived Strong Organic Acceptors for Planar and Nonplanar Push−Pull Chromophores

    Milan Kivala;François Diederich

  • Systematic Investigation of Halogen Bonding in Protein–Ligand Interactions

    Leo A. Hardegger;Bernd Kuhn;Beat Spinnler;Lilli Anselm

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht
Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht University of Strasbourg
Corinne Boudon
Corinne Boudon University of Strasbourg
Paul Seiler
Paul Seiler ETH Zurich
Maurice Gross
Maurice Gross Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen
Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen University of Copenhagen
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Gerhard Klebe
Gerhard Klebe Philipp University of Marburg
Carolyn B. Knobler
Carolyn B. Knobler University of California, Los Angeles

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